Off the back of his successes in professional solo piping competitions in 2017, Sgt Ben Duncan from the Army School of Bagpipe Music & Highland Drumming was invited to play in the Metro Cup Invitational Piping Competition held in Newark, New Jersey. The competition took place in the Ramada Plaza Newark Liberty Airport Hotel on the 17th February 2018. This was a great opportunity for Ben and one of his…
Next month sees the annual Duncan Johnstone Memorial competition held at the Piping Centre. A few weeks ago piper, composer and adjudicator Stuart Finlayson, New Zealand, regaled us with tales of the late master piper who was so influential on so many people. Today we begin the first part of an interview conducted by our Editor Robert Wallace in 1996 shortly after Duncan had been awarded the Balvenie Medal for…
The United States Piping Foundation announce that the 2018 Maclean Macleod Memorial Piping Championships will be held 16 June 2018 at the University of Delaware. Piobaireachd and March, Strathspey & Reel events are offered for Professional and Amateur competitors. Professional competitions are open to all pipers domiciled in North America and classified as Professional by their home associations. Professionals submit six tunes of each type of their own choosing. Amateur…
Robert MacNeill of the BC Pipers’ Association reports: The 2018 Boney Music Memorial Invitational Piping Competition and Recital was a great success, raising over $2170 [£1,228 approx.] for brain cancer research for the British Columbia Cancer Foundation, $828 [£468 approx.] of it from the livestreaming viewers. The BC Pipers’ Association continued the event that Andrew Bonar began in 2016 to utilize piping to further advance charitable causes. The players Kevin McLean,…
To the US for some sun at the South Florida Pipe & Drum Academy at Boca Raton. I should have something to report – all good I hope. Around 50 students, 28 for piping with class sizes kept to five or six. This will be our fourth annual school and I think we are beginning to make an impression. Certainly standards improve year on year. Many thanks to our sponsors…
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